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John Tiatco Szwed, 34San Ramon, CA
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San Ramon, CA
San Jose, CA
Milpitas, CA
Union City, CA
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Alan Lomax
…two groundbreaking suites of commercial folk music recordings: Woody Guthrie's Dust Bowl Ballads and Lead Belly's Midnight Special and Other Southern Prison Songs.[13] Though they did not sell especially well when released, Lomax's biographer, John Szwed calls these "some of the first concep...
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Alan Lomax: The Man Who Recorded The World
Author:
John Szwed
Publisher:
Penguin Books
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
448
ISBN #:
0143120735
EAN Code:
9780143120735
The definitive biography of Alan Lomax-from John Szwed,"the best music biographer in the business" (L.A. Weekly). One of the most remarkable figures of the twentieth century, Alan Lomax was best known for bringing legendary musicians like Woody Guthrie, Pete Seeger, Muddy Waters, Lead Belly, and Bu...
Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra
Author:
John F. Szwed
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
496
ISBN #:
0306808552
EAN Code:
9780306808555
Sun Ra, a.k.a. Herman Poole "Sonny" Blount (1914–1993), has been hailed as "one of the great big-band leaders, pianists, and surrealists of jazz" (New York Times) and as "the missing link between Duke Ellington and Public Enemy" (Rolling Stone). Composer, keyboardist, bandleader, philosopher, poet, ...
Blues For New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America's Creole Soul (The City In The Twenty-First Century)
Author:
Roger D. Abrahams
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Binding:
Hardcover
Pages:
112
ISBN #:
0812239598
EAN Code:
9780812239591
In the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, as the citizens of New Orleans regroup and put down roots elsewhere, many wonder what will become of one of the nation's most complex creole cultures. New Orleans emerged like Atlantis from under the sea, as the city in which some of the most important American...
Black Gods Of The Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults Of The Urban North
Author:
Arthur Huff Fauset
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
152
ISBN #:
0812210018
EAN Code:
9780812210019
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested it...
The Future Of Jazz: By Will Friedwald, Ted Gioia, Jim Macnie, Peter Margasak, Stuart Nicholson, Ben Ratliff, John F. Szwed, Greg Tate, Pet
Author:
Will Friedwald, Ted Gioia, Jim Macnie
Publisher:
Chicago Review Press
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
256
ISBN #:
1556524463
EAN Code:
9781556524462
Jazz is now 100 years old, a venerable American institution predicated on the unpredictable. But recent signs-ranging from Ken Burns's documentary Jazz: A History of America's Music to the dominance, in terms of sales, of reissues over new recordings-have made many question whether jazz's past has n...
So What: The Life Of Miles Davis
Author:
John F. Szwed
Publisher:
Arrow Books Ltd
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
496
ISBN #:
009928183X
EAN Code:
9780099281832
Miles Davis was one of the crucial influences in the development of modern jazz. His Kind of Blue is an automatic inclusion in any critic's list of the great jazz albums, the one record people who own no other jazz records possess, and still sells 250,000 copies a year in the US alone. But Miles reg...
Crossovers: Essays On Race, Music, And American Culture
Author:
John Szwed
Publisher:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
296
ISBN #:
0812219724
EAN Code:
9780812219722
Ranging across genres from the popular to the scholarly, this selection of John Szwed's published essays abides in the intersection of race and art, jazz and rap: crossovers inside and outside the academy. With reviews written for the Village Voice and articles from academic journals, this volume in...
So What: The Life Of Miles Davis
Author:
John Szwed
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Binding:
Paperback
Pages:
496
ISBN #:
0684859831
EAN Code:
9780684859835
Musical genius, visionary artist, enigma -- more than ten years after his death, Miles Davis still looms large as a cultural icon. In this, the first new biography since Davis' death, John Szwed draws on various archives and never-before-published interviews with those who knew him to produce the ri...
Isbn (Books And Publications)
After Africa: Extracts From British Travel Accounts And Journals Of The Seventeenth, Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries Concerning The Slaves, Their
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0300027486
Space Is The Place: The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0306808552
So What: The Life Of Miles Davis
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0434007595
Space Is The Place : The Lives And Times Of Sun Ra
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0679435891
Blues For New Orleans: Mardi Gras And America'S Creole Soul
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0812239598
Jazz 101: A Complete Guide To Learning And Loving Jazz
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0786884967
Afro American Folk Culture An Annotated Bibliography: An Annotated Bibliography Of Materials From North, Central, And South America, And The West Indies
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
0915980800
Discovering Afro-America
Author:
John F. Szwed
ISBN #:
9004042644
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